tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post4599253227349636276..comments2024-03-25T15:07:41.959+00:00Comments on Nigeness: SolsticialNigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-73108958622658573592008-12-23T10:19:00.000+00:002008-12-23T10:19:00.000+00:00Musical footnote: There's a beautiful Offertorium ...Musical footnote: There's a beautiful Offertorium (D963) by Schubert - one of the last things he finished before his death. Worth seeking out, if you' don't know it...Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-87119481461845170822008-12-22T18:05:00.000+00:002008-12-22T18:05:00.000+00:00Christmas deletedThis Christmas has been removed b...<B>Christmas deleted</B><BR/><BR/>This Christmas has been removed by the author.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06074816573442173758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-75224450913343590112008-12-22T17:21:00.000+00:002008-12-22T17:21:00.000+00:00Nige, I haven't seen the clip but will seek it out...Nige, I haven't seen the clip but will seek it out instantly. I've not quite got over the Peruvian guinea pig festival pictures, however, and will be tiptoeing carefully through the YouTube links.Sophie Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05212037697701712380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-61128849620139599472008-12-22T17:13:00.000+00:002008-12-22T17:13:00.000+00:00Ah Sophie, guinea pigs - the most cheering pet aro...Ah Sophie, guinea pigs - the most cheering pet around, I reckon, Have you watched the classic YouTube clip of three guinea pigs 'fighting' over a piece of cucumber (the original one, not the later restaging) - brilliant!Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-55902081064544092112008-12-22T15:47:00.000+00:002008-12-22T15:47:00.000+00:00I'm feeling peversely happy. Our two female guine...I'm feeling peversely happy. Our two female guinea pigs are, as I type, playing squeakily in their playpen with a visiting neutered male we are looking after for holidaying friends. The urge is still with him and he chases the girls around in endless circles but obviously to them he doesn't smell right and gets kicked in the head a lot. I know it shouldn't make me laugh but it does.Sophie Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05212037697701712380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-78159419409552332892008-12-22T12:52:00.000+00:002008-12-22T12:52:00.000+00:00Nice poem Brit - and hey Malty's back! And yes i...Nice poem Brit - and hey Malty's back! And yes it could indeed be worse - tho I haven't written off the flu yet...Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-86134769812721720962008-12-22T12:35:00.000+00:002008-12-22T12:35:00.000+00:00This comment has been removed by the author.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06074816573442173758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-57158874095015897532008-12-22T12:24:00.000+00:002008-12-22T12:24:00.000+00:00Written inside of a Christmas card from one of jun...Written inside of a Christmas card from one of juniors friends in Detroit, mayday, mayday, mayday, a merry mayday to our friends.<BR/>Hello Nige, it could be worse, couldn't it?<BR/>Yes it could, we could have the flu, Woolies could still be here, JS could have won Strictly, Bill could be giving the Queens message, there could be a Lindisfarne revival...feeling better now? there there.maltyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02936465848907794425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-65721248471839509392008-12-22T12:12:00.000+00:002008-12-22T12:12:00.000+00:00Brit is far too cheerful. I'm all for miserabilism...Brit is far too cheerful. I'm all for miserabilism. I hate feeling obliged to celebrate Christmas. I was told, a long time ago, that if I didn't do something willingly, I might as well not do it at all. Don't get me wrong. I'm happy buying friends and family gifts. I do so all year round. But at Christmas, it's the fact that I'm told to be cheerful (I don't feel cheerful), take holidays, stop working, spend, spend, spend... It's all too much. <BR/><BR/>Oh, all too depressing. I'm not even enjoying the bean wrap I bought myself for lunch in a futile attempt at cheering myself up.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11666081019459640549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-32608196470158890762008-12-22T12:10:00.000+00:002008-12-22T12:10:00.000+00:00Well, thank goodness your computer recovered in ti...Well, thank goodness your computer recovered in time for you to dump that little bit of festive miserabilism on me...<BR/><BR/>It's the other way about for me. Thanks to Amazon and other interweb miracles Christmas shopping is a joy. I love buying pressies for people. <BR/><BR/>The anticipation of Christmas is the best bit of it, while the day itself passes by in a drunken blur, with a grisly moment at about 6pm when you wake up on the sofa with a strange and terrible variant on the hangover and a deep feeling of dread in your soul.<BR/><BR/>I once wrote <A HREF="http://www.thinkofengland.co.uk/652/6748.html" REL="nofollow">an uncompromisingly mainstream poem</A> on this subject, in case you're interested.Brithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00390560583798960760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-4461506377743314542008-12-22T11:53:00.000+00:002008-12-22T11:53:00.000+00:00French Fancy - that sounds like my kind of Christm...French Fancy - that sounds like my kind of Christmas. This madness is probably an Anglo-Saxon thing...<BR/>As for you Joe - you've just ruined Christmas for me - I was enjoying it so much up til now, then you came along and dashed all my cravat-based hopes how could you?!Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-73456323212399245842008-12-22T11:41:00.000+00:002008-12-22T11:41:00.000+00:00Well Nige, you won't be getting the festive cravat...Well Nige, you won't be getting the festive cravat I just bought you, you miserable sod!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-60504916481172322122008-12-22T11:28:00.000+00:002008-12-22T11:28:00.000+00:00hello, see how quickly I'm here - it's because you...hello, see how quickly I'm here - it's because you are now on my blogroll and I can keep tabs on you.<BR/><BR/>Out here in the French countryside there is not much rampant consumerism. I just popped out to the shops and they were almost empty - more the Monday syndrome here than the few days before Christmas thing.<BR/><BR/>In fact it is all very low key here - Boxing Day is not a holiday, the French have a big meal late on Christmas eve, recover on Christmas Day then it's all as normal until the New Year. <BR/><BR/>I've not even bothered with many decs this year, that's how un-Christmassy I feel.French Fancy...https://www.blogger.com/profile/04941577892849157015noreply@blogger.com